Veerle Vandeweerd is the Director of the UNDP Environment and Energy Group and CoChair of the Global Ocean Forum. Veerle provides background on the Global Forum and context for the 4th Global Conference on Oceans Coasts and Oceans.
Monique Barbut is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). GEF is the main funding organisation for global environment issues and here Monique explains the role of GEF within the Global Forum.
Governor S. H. Sarundajang, North Sulawesi Province, Republic of Indonesia welcomes people to the World Ocean Conference, 11-15 May 2009 in Manando, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Gerard Mangone is a Professor of International and Maritime Law at the University of Delaware in the USA and the founder of the Center for Marine Policy. He is Chair of the Global Forum Working Group on Maritime Transport and here discusses the issues associated with marine transportation..
Al Duda is Senior Advisor, International Waters with the Global Environment Facility and Chair of the Global Forum Working Group on Linking the Management of Freshwater, Oceans and Coasts. He explains how GEF supports initiatives to address various freshwater, coastal and ocean issues.
Rolph Payet is Special Adviser to the President of the Seychelles. He is also Chair of the Global Forum Working Group: Small Island Developing States, which advocates and promotes small island states issues especially in relation to oceans.
Lucy Emerton is an economist and Head of the Global Economics & the Environment Programme, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Here she discusses a mechanism called Payment for Environmental Services, something which is increasingly being used in conservation to give people incentives to save the environment.
Indu Hewawasam is a marine policy specialist with The World Bank and Global Forum Chair for the Capacity Development Working Group. She talks about some of the issues related to capacity building.
David Freestone is Senior Advisor to the Office of the General Counsel for The World Bank. He is also a member of the Global Forum Working group on areas beyond national jurisdiction. Here he talks about the focus of this group's work.
Ken Sherman heads the Large Marine Ecosystems Program at the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service in USA. He also co-chairs the Global Forum Working Group on Large Marine Ecosystems and is discussing issues associated with and methods to deal with large marine ecosystems.
Gunnar Kullenberg is a Professor of Oceanography and Chair of the Climate Change and Oceans Working Group. Here he talks about the connection between oceans, climate and people and this working group's role in bringing this into current policy debates.
Michael O'Toole works for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and is Project Manager of the Benguela Large Marine Ecosystem Project. He discusses the South African project involving three countries jointly managing their oceans and fish resources.
President James Alix Michel, President of the Republic of the Seychelles, gave a keynote address to the 4th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands, The topic of the address was "Climate Change, Oceans and Vulnerable Communities and Ecosystems: The imperitive for internation responses to the climate divide"
Ambassador Tuiloma Neroni Slade is Former Chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Former Permanent Representative of Samoa to the United Nations and Former Judge for the International Criminal Court. He is Co Chair of the Global Forum Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Working Group and here outlines the issues faced by small island states.
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